Sunday, January 3, 2010

Wi-Tribe Consumer Panel- Day 3

Being a Sunday, I didn’t expect the Wi-tribe service to be any good. So it came as a pleasant surprise that it ran smoothly, not great mind you. The fluctuation was still too much. One minute you had the network flying like a F-117, the very next minute it was crawling like a camel cart.




Like the browsing speed, the same condition was seen in the downloading as well, only here you could see the enormous variations reflected in the speeds. Although the sales rep had said when asked about the theoretical and the actual download speed available that both the theoretical and the actual download speed was not much different- 64 theoretical, and 60-62 actual, in reality it varied from 64 to 24 in a matter of seconds.


In the evening, the overall network speed had declined dramatically. This could be the result of the rush hour traffic. But if witribe in its infancy cannot provide consistent speed at the peak hour when its users are not that much, what can we expect when the population reaches critical mass?



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